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BLPH β€” Autumn of Humanity

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Description "To our great surprise, the enemy has advanced faster and stronger than we expected. City upon city is being lost in the battle. The more we take out, the more come. We kill one and ten new crawl out of cracks, holes, and corners. Thousands of civilians, women, children, were brutally slaughtered. Their superiority is appaling!
So far, nothing has been found that could stop their advances. We are running out of time."


Man, I'm so glad that I managed to finish this painting. This piece took me by far longer than any other project. I spent pretty much my entire free time during my vacations on it, so working-time should be something between 60 and 90 hours dooming with Photoshop's default hard round brush. Conclusion: my will to destroy things seems to be larger than my laziness. lol.


Basic concept behind it: some super-high-developed mutated spiders have decided that it's much more enjoyable to rule humanity than to be ruled by humanity, so they start invading cities and tape down every resistant force to the ground where they can slowly rot away by themselves.
At this point, I'd especially like to thank `j4m3sb0nd with his seemingly neverending stream of ideas. He was definitely a great help!


Enjoy


PS: If you like this one, you might also like Unhallowed Dystopia


Facts:
Software used: Photoshop
Hardware: Wacom Intuos 3
Working time: ~60-90 hours
Original resolution: 4800x7200px
Final PSD-size: 463 MB (my laptop needs ages to open/save it )
Temp PS-file: 10.4 GB
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Comments: 590

BLPH In reply to ??? [2020-07-23 18:25:13 +0000 UTC]

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PhoenixTheLegend [2019-09-30 17:30:01 +0000 UTC]

Duude, this looks so cool.

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BLPH In reply to PhoenixTheLegend [2019-10-10 16:14:31 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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mecengineer [2016-10-08 20:14:01 +0000 UTC]

great

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BLPH In reply to mecengineer [2016-10-11 18:53:20 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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rhino123freak [2016-09-13 16:55:25 +0000 UTC]

Dat patience. You motivate me to color my sketch better.
Godlike underrated work right here!

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BLPH In reply to rhino123freak [2016-09-19 17:15:18 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks a ton!
To be honest, I don't think I could ever work so long on a single piece again

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tom091178 [2016-05-01 15:31:22 +0000 UTC]

good work
A post-apocalyptic dystopia.
Β Β Β Β 

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BLPH In reply to tom091178 [2016-05-06 19:14:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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Indiana-Time-Rider [2015-03-03 20:25:46 +0000 UTC]

Woooooooooooooooooooooow, this looks so dystopian, and i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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BLPH In reply to Indiana-Time-Rider [2015-03-03 20:39:00 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you!

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Indiana-Time-Rider In reply to BLPH [2015-03-03 20:41:42 +0000 UTC]

You're very welcome!Β  Β 

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cassielwinchester [2013-11-03 19:33:51 +0000 UTC]

SIMPLY, WOW! :0 in complete awe...

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BLPH In reply to cassielwinchester [2013-11-03 20:54:21 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you so much!

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EdenaBlujul [2013-09-13 00:59:35 +0000 UTC]

BRAVO!! !

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BLPH In reply to EdenaBlujul [2013-09-13 13:56:53 +0000 UTC]

Thank you!

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EdenaBlujul In reply to BLPH [2014-05-25 16:26:57 +0000 UTC]

Β  Β 

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xmfcx [2013-09-11 20:27:02 +0000 UTC]

That spider web with spider looks so oldschool.


just wanted to say it.

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BLPH In reply to xmfcx [2013-09-11 22:02:58 +0000 UTC]

I.... have no idea how I should take it

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xmfcx In reply to BLPH [2013-09-14 09:46:22 +0000 UTC]

It looksΒ nostalgic and nostalgic is good

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BLPH In reply to xmfcx [2013-09-14 09:56:09 +0000 UTC]

In that case, thank you very much

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Enferlain [2013-08-27 16:20:51 +0000 UTC]

Gorgeous, hands down!

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BLPH In reply to Enferlain [2013-08-27 21:54:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much!

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avdsouza [2013-02-08 22:20:16 +0000 UTC]

Do you know where can i find to read this story?

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BLPH In reply to avdsouza [2013-02-09 10:32:56 +0000 UTC]

In my head
Well, I made it up on the fly. Therefore, there is no full story.

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avdsouza In reply to BLPH [2013-02-09 12:57:52 +0000 UTC]

But when you make the story complete, can you send me the link? please?

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BLPH In reply to avdsouza [2013-02-11 19:03:00 +0000 UTC]

As I said, I made it up on the fly and am not planning to develop that further in any way. I might paint a new post-apocalyptic scenery that could require a background-story, but a logic follow up is unlikely...

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avdsouza In reply to BLPH [2013-02-11 19:48:02 +0000 UTC]

ok,ok.

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Aniphine [2012-03-08 04:48:12 +0000 UTC]

Really beautiful.

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DrOedi [2011-08-11 17:08:37 +0000 UTC]

what a big original file size!! How much RAM and HDD did your laptop have??

btw awesome picture!!

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BLPH In reply to DrOedi [2011-08-11 23:51:35 +0000 UTC]

Hmm, 2GB RAM and 75GB HDD (from which 63GB are used). It's definitely not the most comfortable way of doing stuff, but my constant lack of money prevents me getting a new computer xD

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DrOedi In reply to BLPH [2011-08-12 11:19:31 +0000 UTC]

oo, so 2gb ram is enough... are your laptop getting hot when you use high resolution on Photoshop? what processor did you use?
(sorry for the questions, because now I want to buy a laptop, but still confused about the spec for digital painting.. hehe.. )

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BLPH In reply to DrOedi [2011-08-12 19:53:25 +0000 UTC]

My laptop is actually pretty robust (Lenovo R52). Not the fastest with its 1.7 GHz Intel Celeron processor, but I guess it does its job quite well xD

Actually, as for painting, you can almost take the oldest computers there are because hardware doesn't matter as much as it does for 3D-artists who need to render out everything with as much processing power as possible. A 5 year old computer works for digital paintings just fine and, as long as you stay within reasonable sizes (aka. anything below 5000 pixels), you won't experience a whole lot of issues. As for the heat, it pretty much depends on the environment. If I'm sitting in the sun, 30Β°C outside, I'll quickly notice that the laptop isn't particularly happy about that. But other than that, it's not really getting hot, just a bit warm

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becra1 [2011-05-11 00:19:15 +0000 UTC]

welcome to earth.

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TOMMEN3 [2011-04-18 17:02:27 +0000 UTC]

‘‘‘PERFECTION‘‘

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BLPH In reply to TOMMEN3 [2011-04-19 16:47:37 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

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s-kmp [2011-04-13 09:17:56 +0000 UTC]

Epic!

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BLPH In reply to s-kmp [2011-04-15 17:11:17 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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s-kmp In reply to BLPH [2011-04-15 23:08:04 +0000 UTC]

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friedinsanity [2011-04-03 17:56:15 +0000 UTC]

Incredible image!

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BLPH In reply to friedinsanity [2011-04-03 18:42:44 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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AxelOfArt [2011-02-03 21:11:05 +0000 UTC]

Looking at this made me actually dizzy for a second xD
Amazing work

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BLPH In reply to AxelOfArt [2011-02-06 15:05:30 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thank you

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Bojkovski [2011-02-03 09:17:59 +0000 UTC]

great perspective
excellent work

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BLPH In reply to Bojkovski [2011-02-03 10:33:52 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Bojkovski In reply to BLPH [2011-02-03 10:45:46 +0000 UTC]

no problemo

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otsego-amigo [2011-02-02 19:27:50 +0000 UTC]

featured in my journal.

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BLPH In reply to otsego-amigo [2011-02-03 10:32:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much!

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Absinto10 [2011-01-29 13:36:47 +0000 UTC]

Really nice pos-appocaliptic scenary!!

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BLPH In reply to Absinto10 [2011-01-30 22:31:47 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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